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GA HB1639
Bill
Status
Introduced
4/4/2022
Primary Sponsor
Marvin Lim
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AI Summary
- Requires the director of the Environmental Protection Division to appoint personnel to assist persons seeking to file third-party complaints under department laws, rules, and regulations
- Requires landlords to provide tenants with annual utility billing disclosures and mandates that utilities include information on rate negotiation, financial assistance, rebate/discount opportunities, and customer rights with the first and each annual billing
- Directs the Public Service Commission to establish an arbitration system for utilities seeking to disconnect a consumer's retail services and to create performance incentive and penalty mechanisms tied to electric utility revenues by January 1, 2023
- Lowers the connected load threshold for a consumer to choose an alternative electric supplier from 900 kilowatts to 20 kilowatts, significantly expanding customer choice among energy providers
- Requires the Public Service Commission to designate competitive renewable energy zones throughout the state and, before issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity, to make specific findings on whether local energy resource alternatives (such as energy efficiency, storage, distributed generation, or demand response) could meet or defer the need for proposed capacity resources
Legislative Description
Natural Resources, Department of; require director of the Environmental Protection Division to appoint personnel to assist persons filing or seeking to file third-party complaints
Last Action
House Hopper
4/4/2022
Full Bill Text
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